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#111 The Apple Lisa

Kopec Explains Software

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The Lisa: A Critical Link Between Xerox Park and the Personal Computer Industry

The IBM PC leading to Windows would probably not have happened in quite the same way if the Lisa had not come out in 1983. And of course, the Macintosh would not exist if the Lisa hadn't come out. We're still here with Windows and Mac OS almost 40 years later. So, the Lisa might have been inevitable. Something like it probably would have come out after those ideas had already been invented at Xerox Park some point in the 1980s.

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